A teenager stabbed multiple times aboard a Muni bus remained in critical condition Friday morning, according to police.
The 18-year-old victim was riding an outbound 14-Mission bus in the Outer Mission when he got into a fight with a 19-year-old man at about 1:40 p.m. Wednesday, Muni spokesman Paul Rose said.
The pair continued arguing until the bus neared Mission Street and Foote Avenue, where the 19-year-old stabbed the victim, Rose said.
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President Barack Obama flew out of San Francisco International Airport on Friday morning after a one-day visit with business and technology leaders in the Bay Area.Air Force One departed from the airport at 8:46 a.m.The president arrived Thursday night and met privately with 12leaders from technology companies to discuss his commitment to investing in research and development, education and clean energy.
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President Barack Obama was greeted by state and local leaders Thursday night when he touched down at SFO, arriving in the Bay Area for a dinner with local business leaders in technology and innovation. Obama deplaned Air Force One after it touched down at 5:40 p.m. at San Francisco International Airport. He was greeted on the tarmac by San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, and state Attorney General Kamala Harris.
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A second man accused of swindling customers at a funeral home in San Francisco's Bayview District pleaded not guilty today to charges in the case.Donald Rollins, 56, was arraigned this afternoon in San Francisco Superior Court on charges that he allegedly accepted advance payments for funeral services at the company he worked for, Funerals by Washington, which then used the money inappropriately.
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Starting in May, motorists will face detours on the Bay Bridge that will allow construction of the new eastern span to wrap up four to six months ahead of schedule, a Caltrans spokesman said Thursday. The detours are necessary because the bridge's current westbound lanes are directly in the path of the new eastern span, spokesman Bart Ney told reporters at a briefing near the bridge Thursday morning.
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A 41-year-old Redwood City man was accidentally shot by his father during an argument Wednesday evening, police said.Officers responded to a report of a shooting at a home on Meadow Lane in Redwood City at about 5:25 p.m.Police said a man and his son were involved in a domestic dispute when the father armed himself with a handgun and shot his son in the abdomen.The victim was taken to a hospital and is expected to survive.No arrests have been made, and the shooting remains under investigation.
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Snow has blanketed the Bay Area’s highest peaks Thursday as stormy weather continues throughout the region.The snow level has reached 2,500 feet, National Weather Service forecaster Steve Anderson said.Parts of northeastern Sonoma County have already received 8 to 10 inches of snow, according to reports from Geysers Road in Mercuryville, Anderson said.Skyline Boulevard at state Highway 9 near Saratoga received 3 to 4 inches of snow and the area is forecast to see a mixture of rain and snow throughout the afternoon, Anderson said.
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A 2-month-old Antioch boy who was severely beaten Tuesday evening has been declared brain dead and was taken off life-support Wednesday night, Antioch police Sgt. Diane Aguinaga said Thursday.Police received a call from Sutter Delta Medical Center shortly before 9 p.m. Tuesday reporting that an infant was suffering from major injuries believed to be the result of child abuse, Aguinaga said.Doctors told police that the infant was unresponsive when he was brought to the hospital by ambulance.
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Heavy wind and rain has delayed flights by more than two hours at San Francisco International Airport on Thursday morning, an airport duty manager said.Air traffic has been reduced to about half its normal rate, with about 25 arrivals and departures per hour, Duty Manager Mike Towle said.“It’s raining like heck out here,” he said. “We’re getting hit so hard that departures and arrivals are uncharacteristically low.”Towle said at about 8:45 a.m. that there was no estimate yet as to when flights would begin to be back on schedule.
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Travel between San Francisco and the Big Easy just got a little bit easier.More than five years after United Airlines suspended direct service between San Francisco and New Orleans, the airline announced its first such direct flight since Hurricane Katrina will depart Thursday morning.Direct service, which had been suspended immediately following Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, will resume with a flight departing from New Orleans on Thursday that is expected to arrive in San Francisco shortly before 10 a.m.
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Traffic is once again flowing on northbound Interstate Highway 280 in San Francisco after a minor-injury collision blocked a segment of the roadway Thursday morning, a California Highway Patrol sergeant said.Located just north of U.S. Highway 101, the crash was reported by a driver at 4:56 a.m. and involved three vehicles, CHP Sgt. John Carman said.Emergency medical personnel from the San Francisco fire department responded to the scene of the crash and transported an unknown number of victims who sustained minor injuries, Carman said.
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A former American Airlines employee at Mineta San Jose International Airport is facing 66 felony charges for allegedly stealing and using customer credit card numbers.Prosecutors claim Micheline Johnson, 49, of Concord, skimmed customers' credit card numbers for several years while she worked as a customer service agent.They say she used those numbers on counterfeit credit cards to make purchases of more than $480,000 at Safeway stores in California, Nevada and Washington.
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Santa Clara County's new district attorney, Jeff Rosen, Wednesday announced the formation of a unit that will use DNA evidence to investigate unsolved crimes, fulfilling a promise he made at the outset of his campaign.The cold-case unit will use DNA evidence to investigate unsolved murders, rapes and violent assaults.
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The Carnival Splendor cruise ship, which underwent weeks of repair at the Port of San Francisco, is leaving for Long Beach tonight.A fire started in the engine room of the Carnival Splendor on Nov. 8, and knocked out the ship's propulsion abilities. The ship was left drifting 150 miles south of San Diego without any way of getting to land.No one was injured in the fire, but about 4,500 crewmembers and passengers were stuck at sea for three days. Coast Guard crews and others had to fly in food, water and medical assistance before the ship was tugged to San Diego.
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A cookware store in San Francisco's Marina District was robbed at gunpoint on Tuesday night, police and an employee at a nearby business said.The robbery was reported at about 7:30 p.m. at a store in the 2000 block of Chestnut Street, police said.An employee at a nearby store, who asked not to be named, said the robbery happened at the Williams-Sonoma at the corner of Chestnut and Fillmore streets.
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